OER evaluation as a means of teaching information literacy in individual and small group settings

ABSTRACT

Open education resources represent a great opportunity to reduce textbook costs, but many of them have not been evaluated for quality. Librarians and former students in an introduction to engineering course collected and evaluated open education resources to supplement the course textbook in future semesters. Both searching for and evaluating these resources created opportunities for the librarians to evaluate information literacy skills of these students and to provide instruction to improve these skills.     

新时代科技期刊青年编辑要有“三心”“二意”

青年编辑的成长和培养问题是科技期刊编辑界关注的热点。结合新时代要求,对青年编辑应当具备的时代风貌进行探讨。认为青年编辑要有“三心”“二意”,即坚定信心、胸怀匠心、不忘初心,牢固树立法治意识和市场意识。     

Strength in Numbers: Encouraging Every Staff Member to Work to Capacity

Libraries play a critical role in enhancing the learning landscape of the schools they support. In order for any library to become a powerhouse and a community meeting place, all library team members need to align with the library's vision, own it and begin to add their own strengths and talents purposefully. This article explores practical strategies for developing a visionary team, including supportive leadership, daily stand-up meetings, weekly staff meetings, special-focus teams, rostering and the “five conversations” approach. These effective strategies can be implemented across a broad range of library workforce contexts in order to ensure the most effective workforce teams are built.     

The role of a digital engineering platform in appropriating the creation of new work-related mind-set and organisational discourse in a large multi-national company

This paper reports on a case study involving a strategic and innovative approach to creation of an in-house multifaceted digital engineering platform (the DEP) in overcoming a number of organisational problems at a multinational engineering company. The DEP was to be used strategically for simplifying the operational complexity and to create and appropriate new work-related mind-set and new organisational discourse to achieve homogenous working across the organisation, which is a huge challenge. The need for this system emerged from the need to resolve many organisational services related problems that carried phenomenal amount of processes, health and safety risks and to regulate, and, control the running of engineering project. Research data were collected using a longitudinal case study approach over a period of six months. In order to make sense of how the DEP helped the organisation, the study used certain elements of Extended Structuration Theory as a lens to assess the case study. This research discovered that the DEP succeeded in creating and appropriating work-related mind-set and organisational discourse. It also had real influence on working processes and employees at all levels while encouraging transparency, responsiveness, agility and accountability. It continues to help the organisation to govern, manage and maintain good standard of service but many barriers still remain.     

Idea generation in biomedical engineering courses using Design Heuristics

ABSTRACT

With increasing demand for improved medical equipment and healthcare, next-generation biomedical engineers need strong design skills. Equipping biomedical engineering students with tools for idea generation and development can increase student design success. Design Heuristics are an ideation tool developed through empirical studies of product designs. While identified in the mechanical engineering space, Design Heuristics may be applicable in biomedical engineering design. In our study, we implemented a Design Heuristics session during upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate biomedical engineering design courses. We examined the applicability of Design Heuristics within individual and team concept generation contexts. The findings demonstrated that biomedical engineering students were able to use Design Heuristics to generate multiple concepts, and that initial concepts produced using Design Heuristics were carried over into final team design. The results support the applicability of Design Heuristics to student idea generation in biomedical engineering design.     

电机学精品在线开放课程校企合作初探

工程教育专业认证背景下,电机学省级精品在线开放课程注重校企合作,收集丰富的生产现场教学资源,聘请企业专家录制教学视频,开展网上讨论、网上直播课等。下阶段校企合作重点是编写理论和实践教材、共建电机科技活动实训室、企业专家指导网上PBL项目、指导学生选取企业真题申报大创项目。     

将科研项目引入化工专业实践教学环节的尝试

在探讨本科生科研训练改革的内容和模式的基础上,构建了课内-课外教学体系,将科研项目引入化工专业实践教学环节中,克服了以往单纯使用教材的传统模式。通过工程实践与课程设计的有机结合,充分发挥学生的主观能动性,并全面的融会贯通所学专业知识,建立深刻的工程观念,培养了学生科研创新理念。     

智能云教学在高职英语中的应用研究

智能云教学是一种融入人工智能、基于云计算技术所开展的教学活动。智能云教学活动包括教学工具、教学内容、教学管理、教学监督与教学评价的全面云技术化和大数据化。从高职英语传统教学模式的痛点出发,分析了智能云教学给高职英语教学带来的契机,通过依托蓝墨云班课的教学实践,充分体现了"学生主体,教师主导"的教学理念,有效激发了学生的英语学习热情,帮助知识的内化和传递,提高了大学生的英语语言应用能力,促进了教师的职业发展。     

理工科大学文科发展的问题及对策研究

通过发展文科实现综合化是当今我国理工科大学的发展趋势．但是在文科发展中普遍存在着对文科及其发展的定位不准、制度不合理、缺乏战略目标、低水平建设等问题．应当时这些问题进行历史与现实的反思,处理好基础文科与应用文科的关系,选择适当的学生培养模式．